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General cryptography question

I understand that encrypted data these days uses a matrix or long algorithms, or whatever, but what about using substitution? How secure is it to have something like a 64 or more character key, used just for adding to the origonal ascii value. Would something like that be as hard to crack as an algorithm of todays standards? im asumming not..and are there benefits to using these algorithms over a long length key for substitution?